Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”

– Jim Butcher, White Night

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”

– Vin Diesel

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

‎The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”

– Norwegian proverb

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker